Hi Pine,

Yes that would be the best translation.

I hesitated to use advisory board but wanted to keep a coherence between
the french and the translated name to make it easier in the future to share
what it brings to us :)

--
Christophe

On 13 January 2015 at 12:52, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Christophe,
>
> Thanks for this information. It took me a few minutes to figure out what
> the American equivalent to this committee is; at first I thought this
> announcement was about a research committee. I think our equivalent is what
> we would call an advisory board. Please see
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory_board; does this look like a good
> description of what WMFR intends for its scientific committee? I ask partly
> because at this very moment I am working on Cascadia Wikimedia User Group's
> budget and goals documents, and it is helpful to know what experiments
> other movement organizations are doing as we think about how we want to
> move forward with the Cascadia group.
>
> Thank you. (:
>
> Pine
>
>
>
> Pine
>
> *This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
> our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
> must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
> which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
> fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
> know.*
>
> *—Catherine Munro*
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:36 AM, Christophe Henner <
> christophe.hen...@wikimedia.fr> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> First of all, I wish everyone a happy new year.
>>
>> Even if the first days of 2015 were tainted by violence, we also witnessed
>> people shouting how freedom is important. I hope 2015 will be at the image
>> of the latter.
>>
>> Now, to the announcement.
>>
>> As you might know, Wikimedia France is working hard at improving its
>> governance. A gap we identified month ago was that we lacked external
>> point
>> of views regarding our activities.
>>
>> In order to fix that, we created a scientific committee. This committee is
>> a test, it doesn't exist in our bylaws. So, in 2015, we're trying this out
>> to see if it can help us better do our work.
>>
>> This first committee is chaired by Rémi Mathis, my awesome and wonderful
>> predecessor. It has 8 members, including Rémi :
>>
>>    - *Dominique Cardon*, sociologist at Orange Labs laboratory and
>>    associate professor at Marne-la-Vallée university (
>>    http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Cardon)
>>    - *Camille François*, Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for
>>    Internet and Society
>>    - *Laurent Le Bon*, Chief curator, director of Picasso-Paris national
>>    musuem (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Le_Bon)
>>    - *Frédéric Martel*, journalist, writer and producer at France Culture
>>    (French public radio) (
>>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Martel)
>>    - *Rémi Mathis*, former Wikimédia France chair, historian, curator (
>>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9mi_Mathis)
>>    - *Louise Merzeau*, associate professor at Paris Ouest university in
>>    information sciences (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Merzeau)
>>    - *Henri Verdier*, Etalab director , Chief Data Officer for France (
>>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Verdier)
>>    - *Cédric Villani*, mathématician, Fields Medalist (
>>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_Villani)
>>
>>
>> Those 8 persons will meet for the first time this week to better
>> understand
>> what Wikimedia is. For the coming year, we will ask their inputs and
>> opinions on what we're doing and planning to do for free knowledge.
>>
>> As said earlier, this is a test. We will try to share as much as we can
>> our
>> feedback on how it goes and if it's useful for Wikimedia France.
>>
>> The announcement in french is available on our blog :
>>
>> http://blog.wikimedia.fr/wikimedia-france-cree-son-conseil-scientifique-7059
>>
>> If you have any question feel free to ask here or to Rémi and I off-list.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
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